Nikki Lagouros explains Fairfax County tax assessment versus home market value

Fairfax County Tax Assessment vs. Market Value: What Is Your Home Worth?

By Nikki Lagouros | BHHS PenFed Realty | Northern Virginia Does a higher Fairfax County tax assessment mean your home will sell for more? A higher assessment does not establish today’s selling price. Fairfax County

Buying and Selling a Home at the Same Time in Northern Virginia

By Nikki Lagouros | BHHS PenFed Realty | Northern Virginia Should you buy or sell first in Northern Virginia? If you need the proceeds from your current home to fund your next purchase, start by

Quiet suburban street lined with tall maple trees in orange, red and gold fall color, with parked cars and lawns in the distance

Fairfax County’s Leaf Vacuum Season Starts in November. Here’s How to Get Your Curb Ready

Fairfax County’s vacuum leaf collection runs November through January. Here is what it costs, how to set leaves out, when the 2026 schedule posts and what to do if you are not covered.

Wide multi-lane Broad Street (Route 7) in Falls Church VA with a turn lane, traffic signals, low commercial buildings and mature shade trees under a partly cloudy sky

Falls Church Leaders Want Route 7 Bus Rapid Transit Moving Faster. Here Is Where It Stands

Falls Church and Fairfax County leaders want Route 7 bus rapid transit to move from planning to funding. Here is the route, the December step and what is still unknown.

Wide grass airfield behind a chain-link fence with the control tower and low terminal buildings at Washington Manassas Airport in Manassas VA under an orange evening sky

Manassas Airport Starts Terminal Work as a $29.3 Million Control Tower Contract Moves Forward

Terminal work has started at Washington Manassas Airport, and the Airport Commission has recommended a $29.3 million control tower contract. Here is the timeline and what is still open.

Covered pedestrian footbridge with a Rippon sign and peaked roof at the Rippon VRE station in Woodbridge VA, with a crosswalk in front and autumn trees behind

OmniRide Proposes Shortening the Lake Ridge Connector: What Route 94 Riders Should Know

OmniRide proposes shortening Route 94, the Lake Ridge Connector, to run between NOVA-Woodbridge and Tackett’s Mill, with microtransit replacing the Rippon VRE segment. Comments are due Oct. 22.

Multi-lane U.S. Route 1 heading north through Dumfries VA, with green signs for Route 234 and Interstate 95, a sidewalk and grass strip, and businesses along the road

Dumfries Approves Permits for a New Grocery Store on Old Stage Coach Road

The Dumfries Town Council approved permits for a 50,325-square-foot grocery store on Old Stage Coach Road. Here is what is known, what is not, and what comes next.

Three-story glass and stone office building with a vine-covered facade, surrounded by tall trees, with cars in the parking lot in front, at the Lake Fairfax Business Center in Reston VA

A Reston Office Park Could Become 1,000+ Homes. Here Is What Is Still Undecided

Halley Rise construction site in Reston VA with two tower cranes, scaffolding and a Halley Rise branded construction fence, apartments in the background

Halley Rise Has a Wegmans and Two Apartment Buildings. The Offices and Hotel Are Still Waiting

Two children in skeleton costumes holding orange pumpkin buckets while trick-or-treating on a neighborhood sidewalk at dusk

Where to Trick-or-Treat Around Reston This Halloween, Date by Date

Your Reston Halloween 2026 guide: trick-or-treat at Town Center, a nature center trail, free trunk-or-treat, a dog festival and more, listed by date.